Robert Pinsker

Pinsker’s innovative teaching idea, “MakeHerSpace,” is focused on providing the opportunity for all students, especially girls, the opportunity to engage in do-it-yourself (DIY) activities that fuse technology, art, construction and crafts into their own form of learning. This space serves to recruit and retain girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) courses, and offers the tools and materials for students to apply the engineering design cycle process – ask, imagine, plan, create, and improve. Pinsker believes that student learning will be improved through using the rigorous STEM content, coupled with the skills of questioning, observing, finding patterns, and constructing meaning in a social and creative DIY environment – and will broaden their horizons beyond the classroom.